Chapter 2 Explaining and Encounters
Sasuke Uchiha sat once again being looked at by a healer. He was doing something against his nature and that was listening to other people, however it was the best way to get information. So far he had gathered that there were four nations in total one for each of the elements only lightening was missing. Some people from those nations could use the elemental justu or bending of their home nation however expect for highly skilled members who could do subgroups like ice and lightening they were limited to only that element. There was also a war going on between the nations and the Fire Nation was winning, the water tribe was all but defeated, the Earth Kingdom fought on but had lost most of their cities including their capital. The last nation the Air nomads where whipped out long ago at the beginning of the war.
"Ah, you're lucky that we got to you, some of these wounds are very bad." said the healer as he wrapped Sasuke's shoulder "How you where able to move I will never know.
"Just shut up and heal." ordered Sasuke as the healer went back to work.
Elsewhere in the Fire nation military base Azula sat on a small thrown as the general in charge of the base sat before her in a slightly lower chair so that it was clear that she was the one in charge.
"Princess Azula why are you healing this outsider he isn't from the fire nation and shouldn't be shown any mercy." said General Fu, he had noticed right away that the stranger didn't have his hair in a pony tail or bun like it was required to be for everyone over the age of six in the fire nation.
"Yes, I am aware of that." said Azula as she placed her hand under her chin "However there is something different about this young man…something I know that will be useful in us not only finding and capturing the Avatar but winning this war outright."
"With the fall of Ba Sing Se the war in the Earth Kingdom is all but over, only the comet operation remains." said General Fu "Once that is done we can crush the remains of the water tribe in a single campaign season and the entire world will be under our control."
"Never under estimate your enemy general." stated Azula
"It is the simple truth, after a hundred years this war will be over soon." stated General Fu
"This Sasuke Uchiha will end it sooner than that." answered Azula
"How?" asked General Fu
"Do not worry about that, it isn't your concern." said Azula
"I understand princess." said General Fu
"Tell me General any news from yours spies about the location of the Avatar?" asked Azula
"No, they have not seen by anyone since you missed them at the boiling rock." said General Fu as Azula's fist tightened she had missed her brother at the boiling rock by under an hour.
"Damn engine trouble if I had been there I could of stopped them from using the warden as a prisoner to escape the boiling rock." thought Azula "But where would they go off to in the stolen war balloon?"
"Ah…" said Azula as it finally dawned on her what she should have seen days ago "General tell me when your army is in trouble where do you go?"
"Go to the nearest base to get extra forces." answered General Fu
"Correct all good generals would and now the Avatar is in trouble so he would go to a place he knows?" answered Azula as she got off her seat and walked toward a large map of the world located on the back wall "The Western Air Temple."
"Wouldn't the Northern Water tribe capital make more sense?" asked General Fu "They would be better defended and supplied."
"No, the Avatar is weak he will stay away from people. He knows that we will attack anyone who takes him in and he will not risk hiding where there are people, he will pick a place out of the way." explained Azula as the General nodded his head "So he will hide in the ruins of his weak nation, and that is where he will be buried."
"Oh course why I couldn't see that." said General Fu
"Because you are blind, now prepare the air ships we leave within the hour." ordered Azula as she left to check up on her project.
Outside the medical room Mai and Ty Lee where busy looking at the weapons taken off Sasuke Uchiha. They filled five tables and yet Mai had the feeling that this was just the tip of the ice berg on his weapons, he gave these up way to easy to be all of them and he had dozens of empty weapon holders.
"I can't believe he had all these weapons." said Ty Lee as she looked at the table full of weapons most of which where things she had never seen before. She carefully picked up a ninja star only to cut her finger on the tip of the razor sharp blade.
"It's not just that but they are made out of something different than anything I have seen." stated Mai as she held the sword in her hands "This is too light and too strong to be made out of normal steal."
"It is Sound nation steel." stated Sasuke as he walked out of the room before grabbing the sword from Mai's hand so fast that she couldn't even see it. His Sharingan was activated and spinning before returning it to its normal spot. "The snake sword should only be held by someone who knows how to use it."
"Ah those strange eyes make an appearance again." stated Azula as she walked up. "Tell me what is that?"
"The Sharingan my clan's Kekkei genkai." stated Sasuke
"Kekkei what?" asked Ty Lee
"It basically means a bloodline ability only members of the Uchiha clan posses this naturally." said Sasuke "And with it I can do things you never thought possible."
"Well let's put you to the test shall we." said Azula "We may have located the Avatar in the Western Air temple."
"Isn't that across the straight?" asked Ty Lee as she looked at island across the straight just barely visible in the distance.
"Who is this Avatar?" asked Sasuke
"Master of all 4 elements and the only one who has any hope of stopping us from ending the war with a fire nation victory." said Ty Lee "A war that we started 100 years ago and will soon end."
"He is the only thing that could possible stop us." said Mai "He is also a 12 year old kid, a kid we should have caught already."
"I see, I will get him and you will give me everything I need to get home." stated Sasuke
"Wait you aren't going to try and stop us because we started the war?" asked Ty Lee
"Why would I care?" asked Sasuke in a monotone voice "I only care about killing two people from my own world."
"What do you want in return for getting the Avatar?" asked Azula
"When I get him you will give me all the information about getting home." said Sasuke as he glared at Azula as she glared back. Mai and Ty Lee waited for one of them to break but neither one of them did.
"Of course, that seems like a fair deal." said Azula "We have airships preparing to leave within the hour."
'You said it is just across the straight and then where?" asked Sasuke as he looked at the so called airship, they seemed so slow and their only advantaged seamed to flying over mountains and other terrain.
"It's located under a cliff face." said Azula "Only way to get there is by air."
"You underestimate me." stated Sasuke as he turned and walked toward the water "I will meet you there and I will have this avatar."
"You can't cross the water without a boat and airship is faster than a boat." said Ty Lee as Sasuke reached the water's edge to their amazement he didn't sink into the water, he stood on top of it as if it was dry land. All over the dock people turned and looked at the sight a few people even yelled water bender and tried to attack only to get waved off by Azula.
"How is that possible?" asked Mai "Are you a water bender too?"
"I can use all the elements if I so please but this isn't water bending as you call it." stated Sasuke
"Then what is it?" asked Ty Lee
"Chakra, I apply chakra to my feet allows me to walk anywhere." answered Sasuke "Now what does this avatar look like?"
"Bald with blue arrow tattoos on his body." answered Azula "Let him live kill anyone else you feel like."
"Very well." said Sasuke as he took off running across the water at high speeds
"This just gets stranger and stranger." said Ty Lee
"No kidding." answered Mai
"I want those airships up in the air now." ordered Azula as she stormed off to give the workers some person encouragement.
Even in a slightly weakened state it took less than an hour for Sasuke to reach the island and only ten minutes to find what he was looking for. He used the same technique he had learned all those years ago to climb trees without using his hands to walk over the edge of cliff. After only a few feet he saw what he was looking for it was entire village built upside down from the cliff tops. However that wasn't important he saw his he real target. There was a group of maybe a dozen people moving around making breakfast. He spotted the avatar feeding a giant white beast he had never seen before. The avatar was young looked more like a ten year old then a twelve year old. His arms were skinny making him appear extremely weak, Sasuke guessed he couldn't do survive more than a few minutes in a real fight and to top it all off dressed in orange. He was laughing like an idiot with another boy about his own age dressed in blue. He had what looked like a boomerang in his waist line. That one looked like he had a little bit more combat experience but he still wouldn't last long in a real fight.
"Why do I always have to deal with orange dressed idiots, first Naruto and now him." thought Sasuke as he looked around. There were a few adults gathering wood from destroyed doors while two girls one dressed in blue and another dressed in red rags where preparing food for everyone. The girl in blue was moving water around with just a wave of her hand, meaning she was a water bender, the girl in red rags had a knife located on her belt. Another young man maybe his age sat in mediation his shirt off as he breathed in and out trying to control his body.
"Zuko we need the fire hotter would you mind?" asked the girl in red as the boy broke his mediation as a small amount of flames came out of his nose as he let his breathing go.
"So they have a fire bender, water bender and the avatar is supposedly the master of earth, wind, fire and water…still no threat to me." thought Sasuke as he kept watching. There was another girl dressed in green walking from the avatar's location to the cooking girls, and the strange thing was she didn't have shoes and judging from the color of her eyes she was blind or a Hyuga. Since they didn't have any Hyuga's meant she was blind yet she was moving as if she could see. Suddenly she stopped in place as if she had just spotted something.
"We have an intruder!" yelled the girl as she pointed toward Sasuke. Suddenly he felt the ground shifting below him as a cage of earth started to form. Sasuke had no choice but to release his chakra and fall down. The sound of crashing rock caused everyone in the group to look up as Sasuke started falling toward the bottomless gorge.
"Who is that?" asked the boy in blue beside the avatar
"Who cares we have to save him!" yelled the avatar as he jumped onto a saddle on the beast's back. However Sasuke didn't need him, he didn't need anyone. He quickly reached down into his weapon pouch and pulled a kunai with a strong almost invisible wire on it. The kunai hit its mark as he swang down onto the same area where the avatar and his gang were
"What the?" asked the boy in blue as he held a sharpened boomerang in his hand.
"I am wondering that too Sokka but it isn't important right now." answered the girl in blue
"I am impressed for a blind girl you see more than most." said Sasuke as he looked at the blind girl who now stood in a stance ready to fight.
"Who are you?" asked the avatar as he held his wooden staff toward the new comer.
"I am Sasuke Uchiha." answered Sasuke as he stood up pulling his sword "And if the Avatar comes with me now I will let the others live, they are not part of the deal."
"You work for Azula don't you?" asked Zuko
"She and I have an arrangement." answered Sasuke
"Fire Nation scum." said Sokka before looking at Zuko "Sorry Zuko."
"No offence Sokka." said Zuko "But I don't think he is Fire Nation, he doesn't have the pony tail and everyone over six has to have one."
"I am not from the fire nation or any of your nations." said Sasuke with a grin
"What how can you not be from any of the nations." said the girl in red rags as she held her knife in one hand and took up a stance which appeared similar to some of the fan users from Sand or grass country.
"I am tired of talking, now give the avatar to me and no one will die." stated Sasuke
"No he is too important he is the only one who can defeat the Fire Lord and we have you outnumbered." said Toph "So there is no way we are giving you Aang."
With that the avatar gang formed up to do battle against Sasuke. Aang in the middle with Katara and Zuko on either side with Toph, Sokka and Suki finishing the attack line.
"Please give up your outnumbered. We don't want to hurt you" pleaded Aang as Sasuke laughed.
"I once killed a thousand men without getting touched." said Sasuke as he activated his Sharingan. "Your little band doesn't scare me."
"He is lying no one can kill a thousand men and not get touched." stated Sokka
"He isn't lying." stated Toph as Sokka looked at her "Unless he can lie without raising his heartbeat like Azula."
"Doesn't matter, we can't give Aang to him." Stated Katara as she formed a ring of water around her.
"You don't know what you are up against." Stated Sasuke as the young man's black eyes turned red with three black comas.
"What is wrong with his eyes?" asked Sokka
"Who cares let's just get him." said the blind girl as Aang, Katara, Zuko and her send a stream of their elements toward Sasuke. Sasuke simply stood before running though hand signs. Even though it wasn't his best justu it was the best for this time.
"Earth style four wall justu." said Sasuke as four walls of solid stone shot up from the ground blocking their attacks.
"He is an earth bender." stated Sokka as Sasuke jumped over the walls of earth running though more hand signs.
"Fire style Giant fireball justu." said Sasuke as a breathed out a giant fireball larger than any of them had ever seen. They rolled out of the way of the fire ball.
"How can he be an earth bender and a fire bender?" asked Sokka as he looked toward his friends.
"Not counting what he is doing now." said Zuko as Sokka looked to see Sasuke standing on top of the water of the small fountain which had been the source of most of their water.
"How in the world?" asked Sokka, he had heard of anyone standing on water. He had heard of water benders freezing the water under them so that they could stand but to stand on top of moving water was impossible.
"Aang I think we should consider getting out of here." said Katara as they backed up toward the rest of the group.
"I think your right Katara." said Aang
"You will not get away." said a new voice as the gang turned to see Azula standing on her airship, three other airships where clearly visible coming out of the clouds pinning them against the back of the cliff "You're all mine."
"Everyone get back!" yelled Aang as fireballs began flying toward them from the soldiers located on the airship. They retreated to inside a giant metal box, closing it behind them with a gust of wind.
"Sasuke move so that we can blow the door open." ordered Azula as fire benders moved into position to attack to deliver a heavy blow to the metal door. Sasuke just looked at her before running though hand signs.
"No need." said Sasuke as lightening formed around him before gathering around his arm.
Meanwhile inside the metal doors Toph and earth bender Haru started to form a tunnel in order to escape. Everyone else was watching the metal walls waiting for an attack which strangely wasn't coming.
"Who is that guy?" asked Sokka "He falls out of the sky, then uses Earth and Fire bending and stood on top of water."
"I don't know but he is trouble and that isn't counting the fact he is working with Azula." answered Zuko as suddenly a loud bang filled the air as the gang looked to see a hand coming though the metal door, a hand covered in lightening. "How is that possible he is controlling lightening?"
"We need to get out of here now!" yelled Katara as Sasuke pulled his hand out leaving a huge gash in the door. They could make out the fire nation airships on the other side of the door but it wasn't wide enough for Sasuke.
"Tunnel is ready." reported Toph as most of the gang started down the tunnel.
"But how Appa will not go underground and they are out there waiting for us." said Aang as the large bison refused to move into the tunnel.
"Then our only chance is to bust though them." said Sokka as another lightening covered hand ran though the door caused everyone to jump "We are faster than them in the sky."
"Alright we will go this way while you take to the sky." said the middle age water tribe warrior Hakoda father to Katara and Sokka.
"No…we finally got you back we will not separate again." stated his daughter Katara as she refused to move from his side.
"Don't worry Katara we will meet again, you and your friends have worked to do." said Hakoda as he hugged his children before headed down the tunnel as Suki the Kyoshi island warrior, Sokka, Zuko, Toph and Aang got onto Appa the flying bison. Katara was the last to get onto their ride.
"Alright here we go." said Aang as he air bended the doors open only to see Sasuke and a fleet of airships waiting for him. Appa took to the air at full speed as lightening danced around Sasuke again. He lifted his hand toward the flying beast. The lightening formed a blade that shot up into the air trying to cut the flying bison in two. Sasuke missed his goal but he did get part of the air bison's tail. Blood poured out of the wound as Appa growled in pain but kept flying, too high for Sasuke and too fast for the airships.
"Dang they got away." said Ty Lee as she looked at flying bison disappearing into the cloud as she and Mai climb onto the platform and joined Azula.
"No matter." said Azula as she looked at Sasuke who just stood there with lightening dancing around him "We have something better then the avatar."
Well I hope you liked this second chapter, I added more details and changed things around a bit. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75